Not his problem
The suckers are paying Trump’s legal bills.
As Donald Trump’s legal woes mount, donors and the Republican party have paid millions in dollars of his legal fees.
His newest legal headache saw him and three of his children hit with a fraud lawsuit, which alleges they lied about the value of property “by billions”.
Financial data shows that he has already spent more than $1m (£890,000) of donations fighting the case in 2022.
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Millions of dollars spent combatting these charges have come from Mr Trump’s Save America political action committee (PAC) – which takes donations from Trump supporters across the country – Federal Election Commission (FEC) filings show.
Save America has paid more than $1.12m this year alone to law firms hired to defend Mr Trump in the New York case. As a so-called “Leadership PAC”, it can use money to pay for expenses that cannot be funded by campaign committees, such as some personal travel or some leadership expenses.
The fix is in.
I guess “Save America” sounds better than “Save My Ass,” though, at this point, I think the two are pretty much mutually exclusive.
The whole thing stinks, yes, but “fix” usually refers to a specific act to corrupt or subvert some law or process.
What do you think is being fixed here?
Or are you just referring broadly to the fact that Trump is duping his contributors?
The broadly one.
I think it is a kind of corruption or subversion to allow a crook to parlay his crookery into funding for his legal bills.
Given what the sorts of politicians the donors might’ve been supporting instead, I’m almost okay with this–every dollar given to what increasingly seems like a doomed legal battle is one not spent on, say, DeSantis’ or Abbot’s campaigns. So long as Trump can’t use the money to successfully wriggle out of this, it’s a bit of a win-win for sanity.